Soluble Polymeric Dual Sensor for Temperature and pH Value

Pietsch, Christian; Hoogenboom, Richard; Schubert, Ulrich S.

Abstract:

The interest in “smart” functional materials that respond to changes in the environment strongly increased in the last years owing to the desire to control complexity and to create systems that adapt or respond to the environment. Moreover, such “smart” materials are used to design and develop new responsive materials for a wide range of applications in various fields, such as biotechnology, drug delivery, particle transport, and optical sensing. Recently, a thermoresponsive fluorescent nanogel was applied as an intracellular thermometer, that is, to monitor the temperature in living cells.

Year:

2009

Type of Publication:

Article

Journal:

Angewandte Chemie

Volume:

121

Pages:

5763 - 5766